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21/11/2007'From Spark to Pixel' goes on show in Berlin

Twenty-four installations on new media, several of huge dimension, by artists from a dozen countries are on show in the voluminous Martin-Gropius-Bau.

 

The spectacular From Spark to Pixel new media art exhibition at the former arts and crafts museum, involves the use of digital and interactive electronic media and is the brainchild of French-born curator Richard Castelli.

Striking installations combine experiences in the perception of time and space with a reinterpretation of the role of the observer from passive to participatory, Castelli explains.

The exhibition is supported by a grant of 900,000 euros ($1.3 million) from the German Federation Cultural Fund.

Thousands of visitors have flock to see it, large groups of school children are among them -- eager to press buttons, enter crowd interaction projection booths, or flex their muscles on Korean-born artist Brad Hwang's sledge-like installation, which has an electrostatic generator and two revolving discs.

Works by Hwang, Jean Michel Bruyere(France), Erwin Redl (Austria) and Japanese art group, Dumb Type are having their world premieres, in Berlin.

From Spark to Pixel also features works by Jeffrey Shaw and Sarah Kenderdine (Australia); Gregory Barsamian (US); Marie Maquaire and Thomas McIntosh (Canada); Romy Achituv (Israel); Du Zhenjun, and Patrick Sorin (France); Cristian Partos (Sweden); David Moises (Austria) and Ulf Langheinrich, KAI, Joachim Sauter and Bernd Luesebrink, Art + Com (Germany).

'So excited'

When the Berlin Wall fell 18 years ago, Hwang was a 24-year-old Korean student living in Utah in the United States.

 

Now a US citizen, Hwang told dpa: "I was so excited by the 1989 events in Berlin that I decided I must get there immediately. I kept thinking, this could happen in divided Korea one day, and I wanted to live the experience."

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